Important Italian Glass 
24 March 2022
Important Italian Glass 
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Toni Zuccheri

I Falconi per Giò Caroli box

Venini
Italy, 1979
overlapping ground polychrome canes, ground black glass, gold 9¼ h × 4¾ dia in (23 × 12 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $8,750
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This work was created for the Valenza goldsmith Giò Caroli. Gold manufacturer's label to lid ‘Venini per Gio Caroli 10’.
exhibited: I Falconi di Toni Zuccheri per Giò Caroli, 5 September 1979, Venini, Via Montenapoleone, Milan
literature: Tony Zuccheri: Poet of Nature and Glass, Chiesa and Pezzoli, unpagniated, illustrates this example Toni Zuccheri at Venini, Barovier and Sonego, ppg. 140-141 illustrate series

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Toni Zuccheri 1937–2008

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Born in 1936 in San Vito al Taglimento, Toni Zuccheri was the son of renowned Italian metaphysical painter Luigi Zuccheri whose work was focused predominantly on the depiction of fantastic animals and birds. From an early age Toni demonstrated an innate capacity for drawing and possessed a great sensitivity toward nature and animals, birds in particular.

A few years after moving to Venice with his family in 1945, he enrolled in the Academy of Architecture and studied under Franco Albini, Ignazio Gardella, Carlo Scarpa and others. In the early 1960s he began to study and work at Venini where, in collaboration with Gio Ponti, he engaged in intensive experimentation with glass; the culmination was the development of Vetro Grosso, a new type of glass created from dense vitreous pastes combined with murrine, raw pigment, shards of Filigrana canes and fine wire mesh.

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